Rings that are Egyptian with respect to a multiplicative set

Abstract: The notion of an emph{Egyptian} integral domain

D

(where every fraction can be written as a sum of unit fractions with denominators from

D

) is extended here to the notion that a ring

R

is emph{

W

-Egyptian}, with

W

a multiplicative set in

R

. The new notion allows denominators just from

W

. It is shown that several results about Egyptian domains can be extended to the

W

-Egyptian context, though some cannot, as shown in counterexamples. In particular, being a sum of unit fractions from

W

is emph{not} equivalent to being a distinct sum of unit fractions from

W

, so we need to add the notion of the emph{strictly}

W

-Egyptian ring. Connections are made with Jacobson radicals, power series, products of rings, factor rings, modular arithmetic, and monoid algebras.

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